In the 1970s, Vernice Davis Anthony was one of dozens of Detroit public health nurses who regularly fanned out throughout the city, building trust. They visited the home of every new mom, and worked in schools, tracking cases of infectious diseases and making sure kids got immunized. (Nic Antaya/Kaiser Health News)If you were growing up in Detroit in the 1970s or '80s, chances are you knew the city's health department — the Herman Kiefer public health complex — by both sight and reputation.Opened at the turn of the century and later enhanced by renowned industrial architect Albert Kahn, the imposing health facility was named after a local infectious disease doctor.

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